Chapter 15 The Ascendant Diver <TOC> Chapter 17 Loot Extraction
Translator: SumTLMan
Li Mu took a long drink from the Sun Spring, finally freeing himself from this negative state. He handed the water bottle to Li Mei.
Li Mei took the bottle, took a sip, and her symptoms became much lighter than Li Mu’s.
“The enemy is a psychic-based ascendant diver, don’t let his psychic energy interfere with you. The attack just now was simply a way to interfere with our senses through psychic energy radiation, as long as we remain vigilant, it will have no effect. What we need to be cautious of is the illusions he creates with his psychic energy.”
“We don’t know what this ascendant diver has taken, but we must quickly locate him.”
There are many strange things in the wilderness that can interfere with our minds. Their psychic energy is usually mind-based, and they can turn it into beams that are invisible to the naked eye, invading other people’s bodies. This can range from interfering with our five senses to directly controlling our minds.
This ascendant diver we encountered is definitely not weak, at least its psychic energy is enough to sustain a long-range emission of fan-shaped beams.
Li Mu shook his arm, sending Fei Lian flying into the air, and commanded, “Locate the ascendant diver.”
“He is likely within a one-kilometer range of us, the limit of the fifth energy level,” Li Mei quickly added.
“The psychic energy beam of the fifth energy level is difficult to penetrate buildings, and even when it passes through wood, it becomes severely weakened. So when it’s activated, it will definitely be in an open area. Once we find him, I can shoot him down with one shot.”
Since they didn’t go mad right away, it’s certain that this ascendant diver’s energy level hasn’t reached the fourth energy level.
Those with psychic abilities are like this. They aren’t considered particularly strong among those of the same energy level, but they have a crushing advantage over those of lower energy levels.
The zombie horde detected fear and, like wind blowing through a wheat field, they all turned their heads towards Li Mu and Li Mei.
The strange scene was eerie.
Li Mei directly pulled the trigger and fired a short shot.
All three bullets hit the tallest zombie, blowing its head apart with blood and gore flying. The zombie’s tough skin and muscle were torn open, revealing its white bones.
The zombie swayed like it was drunk, stumbled a few steps and then fell to the ground.
The zombie is driven by the source essence in its head. To completely kill it, one must completely destroy its body and disperse its head’s source essence. The zombie’s body is highly resilient due to being soaked in source essence for a long time and can easily withstand several dozen bullets. Dispersing the head’s source essence only takes a few shots, but the zombies are not slow-moving like the zombies in disaster sci-fi movies, instead they are very fast and agile.
The gunfire completely startled the group of zombies, causing them to suddenly explode and launch themselves forward.
More than a hundred zombies rushed towards Li Mu and the other person at an alarming speed. Some bloated zombies had violently shaking pus, with suspicious pus blood churning inside.
Li Mu did not have Li Mei’s shooting skills, so he chose to use automatic mode and fire at the zombie group to suppress the ones rushing forward.
The whistling rain of bullets landed on the zombie group, only causing slight ripples.
Li Mei, on the other hand, was very calm and used short bursts of fire, so every time she fired, a zombie’s head would certainly explode.
Li Mu simply threw away his rifle and chose to take out his curved knife to save bullets for Li Mei.
The zombies took less than twenty seconds to cover the distance of more than three hundred meters and reached just in front of the pair. Li Mei was able to shoot and kill more than ten zombies in such a short distance.
If an ordinary person encounters zombies in the wilderness, death is almost an inevitability.
A zombie suddenly jumped and tried to jump in through the window.
“Clang!”
With a flash of cold light, the zombie was beheaded at the waist. The splattered pus blood still had the half-dead zombie on the ground persistently crawling towards Li Mu.
A knife cut open the head on the ground.
【Source essence +0.6】
Li Mu’s heart sank, and the feeling of cutting the zombie was like cutting dead wood, very rough.
More zombies surged up from the lower staircase.
“You guard the window, I’ll go block the zombies coming from the staircase.”
“Be careful of the illusion interference from the ascendant diver.”
Li Mu took out his knife and used Tai Chi knife techniques to directly behead the zombie in front, and then cut off half of the head of the zombie behind with another knife.
He chopped and killed seven or eight zombies in a row, but the zombie’s attack did not stop and instead became increasingly crazy. The zombies swarmed forward from the staircase, some even stepping on their own kind to jump up and try to tear Li Mu apart.
Li Mu’s body became scratched with several wounds. He consciously retreated to avoid being surrounded and swung his knife to kill those zombies that approached too closely.
Because the zombies that rushed in like a tidal wave were too many, his body has started to hang with many bloodstains.
“Don’t conserve energy, put on an act of being exhausted of energy, the lurker zombie is always secretly observing us. If we don’t give it a chance, it won’t come out.”
Li Mei shot and killed a zombie that jumped in from the side window and said to Li Mu.
“Trust me.”
Due to the lurker zombie’s control over the other zombies, this made it not difficult to summon another group of zombies once this group has been exhausted making their journey ahead very difficult and dangerous.
The lurker zombie must be killed here.
Li Mu retreated several steps and sheathed his knife. Facing the wildly rushing zombies, he stamped his foot fiercely, transmitting his strength continuously and directly bombarded the rushing zombies with a foot stomping like a piston hammer.
This is a method of exerting force in the combined form of Tai Chi Fist, Knife, Sword, and Rod, allowing him to mobilize his energy and struck at one point.
With a tearing sound, the zombie literally exploded in a cloud of flesh. The shock that entered its body directly tore it apart, like a smashed tomato, the red and green pus and blood splattered everywhere.
The zombie’s remains flew back like they were hit by a siege hammer, taking their rear companions with them.
Li Mu was a little shocked by the power of this punch. The bones of his entire right arm were feeling a faint pain. He was not yet good enough in the Dragon Roar Bone Sublimation method to bear the load brought by using Shock Calamity.
The zombie’s attack stalled, but soon roared and rushed forward again.
“Boom!”
Several more zombies were blown away.
Li Mu withdrew his left arm. His energy was only subjected to one area and was very limited. After these two punches, his energy was already somewhat unsustainable.
He used his knife to chop the rushing zombies to death, but more zombies charged forward.
With a gunshot, a zombie that rushed from the side was directly shot in the head and fell to the ground, trampled by its eager companions.
After Li Mei dealt with the zombies that were about to rush in from the window, she immediately turned around to support Li Mu. She kept using short-range shots to kill the zombies in the back. The attack of the zombie group was slightly suppressed.
Li Mu took advantage of the opportunity to take a big sip of Sun Spring, and the stinging pain in his arms was immediately relieved while his spiritual energy slowly recovered.
The two of them occupied favorable terrain and killed more than sixty zombies in a short window of time.
“Retreat, retreat upstairs! We can’t hold this floor anymore.”
Li Mei climbed the stairs with a Brahman bull while shooting with one hand to restrain the zombies’ pursuit.
The zombies, relying on their numerical advantage, pressed the front line and slowly squeezed onto the stairs. Their attack surface immediately expanded. The strategy of adding oil to the fire was constantly being consumed.
The zombies, who had already been driven crazy by the two of them, immediately swarmed up.
Li Mu looked around and could only see a row of various bizarre heads with long mouths full of rotten teeth that could tear off a large piece of flesh with one bite.
He used Tai Chi Fist, Sword, Stick, and Hand techniques to strike to the leading zombie, move and transfer his strength, and intercept the chasing zombies behind him.
Li Mu used his hand to move the zombie’s head that was biting and tearing out, and used his waist and abdomen to exert force, hammering repeatedly on the chest of that zombie.
Progression in lifting, blocking, punching, and striking!
“Bang!”
With a loud noise, it was as if a heavy truck’s tire had blown out. The zombie exploded directly, and the zombie horde behind it was oppressed and retreated several steps by the shock wave.
He hacked and killed two zombies that rushed up, took a few steps back, and jumped onto the stairs to prevent himself from being surrounded by zombies.
His vision suddenly turned black, but quickly returned to normal.
Although it was only for a moment, Li Mu still felt a little confused, but before he could think too much, he heard the zombies’ roar behind him.
He turned his head and saw that a zombie had unknowingly circled behind him and was pouncing towards him. Its big mouth with rotten teeth opened almost to 180 degrees, and its putrid rotten breath almost overwhelmed him.
Chapter 15 The Ascendant Diver <TOC> Chapter 17 Loot Extraction